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illuminating and breathless

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. This is a photo of a cameraman slowly moving by a wheelie while the lighting and actors stay in place. The lady in the striped dress is none other than the tragic Jean Seberg with her French co-star Jean Paul … Continue reading →

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colour home movies in 1929

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. Even today, we use ways to separate and re-combine primary colours to create realistic viewable colour images, be they prints, computer screens, smartphones, or TV. The concept itself is over a century and a half old. James Clerk Maxwell demonstrated … Continue reading →

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most gifted

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. Today when someone says, “most gifted”, we usually think of a very bright child worthy of accelerated and/or in-depth learning. Today, when we think of compact cameras we usually mean smartphones. In the summer of 1967, a Kodak advertisement … Continue reading →

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girls of Dawson City

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. We often heard of the gold rush and the men “who moil for gold” as Robert Service says in his poem “The Cremation of Sam McGee“, but we seldom heard of the girls of questionable virtue attracted to the … Continue reading →

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zombie jamboree

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. Early photographic media were unable to record the much weaker lower end of the visible spectrum (reds, some oranges) but what about the spectrum above the visible blues and violets? In 1896, just weeks after Germany’s Wilhelm Röntgen publicly … Continue reading →

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a hint to the future of colour photography

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. In February 1931, the magazine Science and Invention had this brief note on the status of a new colour process taken on by Kodak. It modestly states, “These processes are said to be as simple as those involved in … Continue reading →

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the world’s largest camera

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. In 1931, the USA – never one to boast – announces that it has the “World’s Largest Camera” via the magazine “Science and Invention” in its January 1931 edition.  J G Barry of the American government’s “US Geological Survey” … Continue reading →

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What Camera Settings Should I Use for Nighttime Photos?

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. Remember Life Savvy and How-to Geek in a post the other day? Well, here’s another article by Harry Guinness, from April 10 of last year (2019), this time on ideas to use with the more traditional style of digital … Continue reading →

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electric avenue

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. Over the years, any significant scientific discovery was soon promoted as a nostrum for curing any long-term illness without recourse to the nasty demands of scientific proof. Electricity, Radiation, Atomic Energy, etc. The list goes on including most recently … Continue reading →

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why everyone should learn photography

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Robert

Toronto. Life Savvy posits “why everyone should learn photography” in its post by Harry Guinness back on May 12th. This article is in the “if you can’t beat them, then join them camp” as Harry sets out to teach smartphone … Continue reading →

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